This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

These pink granite water slides are the result of millions of years of erosion.

A flat slab of stone perched hundreds of feet above the Gasconade River in the northern Ozark mountains.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

Entombed in this strange, white stone hill are the deadly remains of radioactive weapons production.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A vineyard devoted entirely to an unexplored flavor frontier.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.